Georg Egmont Oehme

Georg Egmont Oehme (born January 31, 1890 in Dresden as Hermann Bruno Georg Oehme ; † February 17, 1955 ibid) was a German painter and art teacher.

Life

Georg Oehme was the son of the Dresden master upholsterer August Hermann Oehme, who later traded in antique furniture. His brother was Hanns Oehme .

After graduating from high school, Georg Oehme studied from 1908 to 1911 at the Royal Saxon School of Applied Arts under Oskar Zwintscher and as a master student of Gotthardt Kuehl at the Dresden Art Academy . From 1911 to 1912 he worked as a private tutor for drawing and painting in Russia . Study stays in Friesland and Holland are also known. From 1913 he was a teacher at the art school in Braunschweig . In 1914 he married Gertrud Zocher, daughter of a music dealer. The marriage produced a son and a daughter. From 1923 to 1926 he was a teacher at the old Dresden art school for women and men by Guido Richter. Wilhelm Lachnit temporarily worked in Oehme's studio. In 1921 he portrayed Otto Dix . After teaching at the Old Dresden Art School, he worked as a freelancer. In 1943 he was represented with works at the Great Dresden Art Exhibition of the Dresdner Künstlerbund in the exhibition building Brühlsche Terrasse . In addition to Dresden, he was also involved in exhibitions in Berlin and Munich . In 1944 he was appointed professor.

Grave of Georg Oehme and Hildegard Böhme ; Outer Plauenscher cemetery

Oehme mainly painted landscapes, flower still lifes and portraits. He was a member of the artists' council of the Dresden Art Cooperative and in several artist associations, including the Saxon Art Association and the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR . His artistic estate was managed by his former student Hildegard Böhme by family resolution based on the will . Some of his works are in public collections.

Oehme died in Dresden in 1955 and was buried in the Outer Plauen cemetery .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 1933: Dresden, The Art of the People
• 1935: Dresden Art Exhibition 1935
• 1938: Frankfurt am Main
• 1940: Dresden Artists Association
• 1941: Dresden Artists Association
• 1943: Dresden, art exhibition Gau Sachsen
• 1943: Dresden Artists Association
• 1946: Dresden, Saxon artist
• 1987: Düsseldorf, Die Dresdner Künstlerzene 1913–1933 , Galerie Remmert and Barth
• 2014: Dresden, special exhibition, From anemone to zinnia - the language of flowers. Dresden painting of the 20th century , Pillnitz Castle Museum .

literature

• Oehme, Georg. In: Dressler's art manual . II, Berlin, 1930.
• Oehme, Georg Egmont . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 25 : Moehring – Olivié . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1931, p. 566 .
• Oehme, Georg . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General Lexicon of Fine Artists of the XX. Century. tape 3 : K-P . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1956, p. 506 .
• Oehme, Georg. In: Mortimer G. Davidson (Ed.): Art in Germany 1933–1945. Painting. Volume 2/1. Grabert, Tübingen 1991. ISBN 3-87847-096-7 .

Web links

• Overview of the contents of Georg Oehme's estate in the Saxon State Library - Dresden State and University Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Birth register StA Dresden II, No. 352/1890.
2. ↑ Death register StA Dresden VII, No. 165/1955.
3. ↑ Georg Oehme. In: Special exhibition 2014 in the Pillnitz Castle Museum. ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), press release, Schlösserland Sachsen , April 28, 2014, p. 22. 
4. ↑ Marriage register StA Dresden I, No. 696/1914
5. ^ Dresdner Künstlerbund (ed.): Great Dresden Art Exhibition 1943. 1943.
6. ^ Christian Leutemann: Provisional list of the written estate of Georg Oehme (1890–1955). 2007 hansopac.slub-dresden.de (PDF) SLUB Dresden .